That is the middle of 1,375 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
1,375 homes sold in three years: 237 detached houses, 401 semi-detached houses, 568 terraced houses and 169 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£435K
median sale · 237 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£515K
Last 12 months
£485K67 sold
New build
£450K
Semi-detached houses£320K
median sale · 401 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£363K
Last 12 months
£320K115 sold
New build
£355K
Terraced houses£270K
median sale · 568 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£290K
Last 12 months
£274K175 sold
New build
£320K
Flats and maisonettes£186K
median sale · 169 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£159K–£220K
Last 12 months
£185K49 sold
New build
£227K
The mix
A terraced town: 41% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses17%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses41%
Flats and maisonettes12%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Yate’s homes sold for between £250K and £355K
One sale in ten was under £205K and one in ten over £425K. 25% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £289,000, sits in the £250–300K band
1,375 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,000 in 1995 to £290,000 in the last 12 months (£230,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
406 sales in the last 12 months, against 838 in 2001, the busiest year, and 291 in 2008. Sales fell by 41% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 16%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Yate costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Yate, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£83K
£128K
£221K
£248K
£291K
£385K
£485K
Semi-detached houses
£47K
£80K
£146K
£165K
£218K
£288K
£320K
Terraced houses
£42K
£67K
£126K
£142K
£179K
£233K
£274K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
£47K
£98K
£117K
£129K
£170K
£185K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 2% of sales in the last 12 months, after 31% in 2022
1,617 new homes have been sold in Yate since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 2022.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £360,000
against £284,000 for a home sold on, 27% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 9.5% sold leasehold in Yate. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Dowsell Way is Yate’s busiest street, with 43 sales in three years
105 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 45 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Dowsell Way
BS37
43
£351,500
Mixed
2
Clark Drive
BS37
31
£211,000
Mostly flats
3
Cherington
BS37
25
£280,000
Mostly terraced houses
4
Home Orchard
BS37
25
£237,500
Mixed
5
Blaisdon
BS37
24
£275,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Witcombe
BS37
24
£263,500
Mostly terraced houses
7
Longs Drive
BS37
22
£251,750
Mixed
8
Rodborough
BS37
20
£267,500
Mostly terraced houses
9
Harescombe
BS37
19
£275,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Glenfall
BS37
18
£266,250
Mostly terraced houses
11
Somerset Avenue
BS37
17
£377,000
Mixed
12
Bredon
BS37
17
£275,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Hay Leaze
BS37
17
£220,000
Mixed
14
Blue Cedar Close
BS37
17
£215,000
Mostly flats
15
York Close
BS37
16
£275,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Goose Green: £736,100
Yate median£289K
Goose Green£736K
Barkers Mead£616K
Crossman Way£515K
Pear Tree Hey£500K
Kent Avenue£480K
Cheapest streets
Abbotswood: £160,000
Yate median£289K
Abbotswood£160K
Cater Drive£173K
Chargrove£178K
Westleigh Close£185K
Hollybrook Mews£210K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.6 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Gloucestershire
Yate is the 36th most expensive of 48 towns in Gloucestershire
Yate is in the middle of Gloucestershire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Yate
What is the average house price in Yate?
The median home in Yate sold for £289,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,375 standard sales (£290,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £435,000, semi-detached houses £320,000, terraced houses £270,000 and flats and maisonettes £186,000.
Are house prices going up in Yate?
The median was £286,750 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£290,000), and £290,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Yate each year?
406 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 506 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Yate?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Goose Green (BS37, £736,100), Barkers Mead (BS37, £616,000) and Crossman Way (BS37, £515,050).
How much does a new build cost in Yate?
New homes sold for a median £360,000 over three years, against £284,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 7.6% of sales.
Is Yate expensive for Gloucestershire?
Yate is the 36th most expensive of 48 towns of 2,500 or more in Gloucestershire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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